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Past exam of the perturbation methods and applied complex variables course of the University of Oxford 2009 B 4 i Solution by
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Write the complex potential of a two-dimensional potential flow as , and the complex velocity as . The lower solid wall has . The upper solid wall and its continuing free streamline have constant equal to the far-field volume flux per unit depth, namely . Consequently the potential domain is the infinite stripThe points correspond to , to , and is by the chosen potential normalization.
In the hodograph plane, the horizontal wall has real positive, the vertical wall has imaginary positive because the physical velocity is downward, and the fluid free boundary has . The upstream reservoir velocity tends to zero, the outgoing velocity is one, and the velocity at is . Thus the hodograph is the first-quadrant unit quarter disk, with at , at , and at .
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